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Moon in March with Fieldstone
by Steve Myers
Home last night after ten,
I stood in the driveway
and heard the first geese of spring
moving and clamoring
in the darkness — there must have been
a hundred of them.
I thought
of George Sotter’s painting
of the fieldstone farmhouse,
the strange moonthrown light blanketing
the foreground snow,
imagined me an unseen boy
of ten beyond the trees, and
wondered what —
in that phantasmagoria
of moon and blackened, broadbrush
January sky, the terrain
of Pennsylvania deeply sleeping —
allowed me then, as now,
to lift a hand and apprehend
its heat?
Steve Myers
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Steve Myers grew up in Holicong, Pennsylvania and since has lived for extended periods in various corners
of the state as well as in Rochester, N.Y. and Glasgow, Scotland. His poetry collection, Memory's Dog,
appeared from FootHills Publishing in 2004; his chapbook, Work Site, was published by FootHills in
2003. Individual poems have recently appeared or will soon appear in Atlanta Review, caesura,
The Dark Horse, Kestrel, The Malahat Review, Potomac Review, Quarter After
Eight, and Sentence, as well as in the anthology Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets on
Pennsylvania. He is Professor of English at DeSales University in Center Valley.
STEVE MYERS IN THIS EDITION:
POETRY: Moon in March with Fieldstone
POETRY: What I Became
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